Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-11-15
SONGS AND soNo-MAkeRs.
Some Hitherto Unpublished Facts Con
earning Popular Ballads.

SONGS AND SONG-MAkERS.
Some Hitherto Unpublished Facts Con-
corning Popular Ballads.
Popular songs are often queer. SO
are their authors. But stranger still is
the secret governing the public taste,
by which some compositions are taken
up and others rejected. Not 5 per
cent. Of the songs annually issued have
spark of originality about them. In
this country the dozen or so publishers
issue annually about 1900 editions OF
songs. of between 1900, 600 and 90
600. 600 of copies. This, added to the
reprints of English and foreign songs,
means fully thirty copies daily per cap
ita to every teacher of music in the
land. Yet out of this vast number
there is not one song in 500 that
reaches popul- sale of 5000 copies,
and less than one-tenth as many that
exceed an issue OF 800, 0C0 copies. Here
are the sales of few well-kDown
songs;
copies soif
Flower From Mothers Grave. ..,... .soo0C
90 M,
!. Whom the Leaves Begin 10 Turn ...-~..i so,oD
ony 70 pee her Face =. -'''''' -'''-'' io'''
Notwitnshahoihs 'his apparent ,ach
Of appreciation on tho part Of surfcit-
ed public, the issue Of sheet music con-
"hues pfon''o'o enterprise reh'o'e'
so by the spasmodic sale of an occas-
IONA, MT '"o pco""'a'. ie'"'' Vi ""'.'
usually o'erpa'ahoes LOSSES e''"'''o" III
o'ner "'rec''ohs'
since .he DAYS Oh o,epneh u roster,
henry u WORK ana oohn howard
iayne' GLASS "a oa'''a's's mas sprung
ih'o eN's'ehoe, inc enact uesc',P''o,, "a
Wh'ch ~ wo"'" oe ''''i'e"'' W sHe' ne
stray embraces "''''oS. e'ors 'o'"''""
rom p'ihS're' !" f'''ena''c. Aho
she more no'ao'e are FRANK 'iow"s''
weh-Khowh az a"'nor on on'y ianss
Blossom anu w heh Tue hop'hs
Nes' AGAIN, pas'o p'ah''h' o"'''es "
stewart WIN. o. seaman ."e ac'o.i
oh,r'es .onhoiiy' sydney hosehieio'
=. n. Enmct anu W"ter Ih"nih'
N"so"ie'o WINS i"rmcriy n'''"e'Pni"
jou."ai's'' "n"e VIM i'c""''s"n' 'he
wuter oI 80 many 'opiea' songs, WI
formerly connec'en WIN Inc, me e'' T,
s'an oi inc NC" 10TH TUNES mess
comprise oniya very rev Oh 'ne NOUS
An" VINO "'''o ''S",o" P'P''"' so"s
mas'hs
ne song w''ch s'ahos a'onc IN '"e
american marker III Duinb GI lSAt1fS
SOLD " inc "Scofch bassie jean, which
reached ], 900, GOO copies, and Ia still in
fair dopaod Anotbcr rreat snccess
was the oailau "Must No linen Meet as
StrAupersp" of which many editions
have ho.r cr;,tad s,;u othora ara
fuckers pretty song. sweet Eene-
We've, "Iho Spanish Cavalier, "Cal'
Mo Back Again. sweet Forget Me
NOT ana "fretty rs Picture. linen
there must not be omitted Westendorf +
IN Take Thee Back Again, kath-
Teen. L" name tho very latest pop
ular song successes Is matter OF more
difficulty The ballad that Is whtstled
day by thousands may be dead and
forgotten by tomorrow. while another
not quito so quick to catch the popular
taste, may sell on and on Just as
familiar but old stories Ike "Uncit
Tom Cabin" do. The latter is to-day
sn,ooo ,h, Last sctI;o, ko,i,., a., ~.
"''""S W" ""'' '"'''', "''N' :" Wv
world. Some songs approach, but they
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NY foiiow'hg are the approximate
saieS Oh some later sneeessos' -.
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'Pec,s- boo igs, oo
When the Robins Nest Again" .,.........eiio,oa
.nvo u.s. vs. ny Nv 40 ~,
'ciimbing up the Golden stair ............ ss,os
Hurry Little chldyen, sunday Mora. Mos
~" rea'o 'o"r a''.o''' io'" ,''''.'''' "'''
~ - '''',os'''s w noIo no" so"s'
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80 -. , o.peSh1 o"s ~ P','"'"o,''
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a,, no ',''us'''' ~ c,o'u,oro'
az ~ ',"V', v ''o S','s W WI w,
s'nso's WI" nav" p,puiar'heu musical
e'"u' az '"o no'" lake 'he mum